The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-12-20
MISSOURI NOTES.

TIE saloons at OrOnogo have
been cosed by local option
! Farmers institutes are being held
IN different sections I'D Missouri.
I The bank of Saline county has
bee" Incorporated with capital stock
ofs1O0, 900.
The local optioni>ts at Clinton
made Up purse of $40 Oh Saturday
Disht toe destitute family.
"A comfsny his bsen formed for
the purpose f shipping Sweet Springs
wafer I" different parts OF the state.
! -'rtIcl,s OF Incorporation have
, beeE fled by the Mexico Machine and
hosie company, capi'al stock 81 coo.
Eight cOnvicts were released from
The p-nis. Dtlary ut Jefferson City On
! Friday, shd SIX were received, all
from Kansas City.
a representative Ofthe Hendricks
Monument association, st Indianapolis,
has been quit successful IN raising
money in Missouri.
The gas bOrers at Carthage have
started on their second thousand feet,
having gone Ihrong b FIVE hundred feet
of sOlid lime stone.
The jefferson City Tribune calls
the presiding officer of the United
States senate, the "breezy and uR-
tanned Ingalls,, of Kansas"
the only people who experience
no incOn, enience in walking the
streets OF Springfield at night are
blind men. SO says the Republican.
The Regnier Il Shoup Crockery
company of St. Joseph filed articles Of
Incorporation With the secretary of
state Friday; capital stock, $780,
900.
William A. Price, for fifty years
q resident of savanna, Andrew county,
died on Friday He was one Of the
earliest and best known citizens in
Northwest Missouri.
1t is understood that the report
of the committee appointed to investi-
gate the Christian church trouble at
Mexico entirely exOnerates the pastor,
Rev. j. w. Higbee.
Money is being raised by the
Freedman's Aid society of the M. K.
church for the erection of q college at
some pcint in Missouri tor the educa-
ton of the coloIed race. 1t will cost
$50, 900.
Putnam county prides herself IN
being the residence of probably the
oldest man living. His name is
Charles GoIliger, and his age is 125
ears. He has lived in that county
nee 1855.
The Rich Hill Herald thinks
that the average citizen of Western
Kansas would turn green with envy if
he could see the loads of coal that sell
on the streets of that city for 81 cents
per bushel.
A personal liberty league has
been formed in Gsseonade county, and
one Of the first sps of the oIganiza-
ton, it is said, was to endeavor to pre-
vent temperance orators from speak
ing in the county.
The people of Marshall are great
ly pleased over the opinion of Judge
John F. Philips that the Ssppington
school fund can be legally diverted to
the cumberland Presbyterian College,
soupht IN be located there.
William G. Hobbs, receiver Of
the land office at Springfield, died at
his home after an illness of only few
days. He vas thirty-five years old
and was one of the most popular
young democrats in the Southwest.
Harry johnson, who robbed the
safe of the the treasurer of Reynolds
county of $40, 900, November 2, has
been arrested in Hemphill county,
Texas. He had two accomplices who
are known and will be captured.
Twenty-Five hundred dollars was recov
cred from y prostitute who was with
johnson.
The Drury college museum has
been enriched by the addition of some
bones of evidently prehistoric animals
which were recently found IN cave
about four miles from the city. There
is said to be very deep layer Of
bones. the bottom of which has not
been reached in the cave Among
them is the head of an animal of the
crocodile species. Many of the bones
have been split, probably by a mar
row eating people.
Hart Christopher, young farm
err living nine miles southwest of st. :
Joseph, shot and instantly killed Z
Richard Sullivan, farm hand on his